He re-read the email, each word a fresh wound. From financial analysis to the cafeteria. The words swam before his eyes. He felt a surge of indignation, a heat that flared through his chest and into his limbs. His jaw clenched, muscles protesting against the strain.

He slammed his fist on the desk. The sound echoed in the quiet office. He pushed back his chair, the wheels screeching across the carpet. He reached for his coat. The door. He had to get out.

Emotion: outraged

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -1.96 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.32

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion outraged. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 outraged stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the outraged emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the outraged vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
C0.467
0.334
🤬0.327
aggravated0.323
0.312
Suppressed:
H-0.315
☺️-0.286
optimistic-0.278
adventurous-0.262
मुस्कुरा-0.260